Encore: “Flawed” with Truth Bomb Mom Kristina Kuzmic

In honor of this month of Mother’s Day, and the Mother’s Quest Manifesto Challenge I launched in the Facebook Group, I’m excited to continue sharing episodes each Thursday that can inspire you to claim your motherhood and life journey on your terms.

This “encore episode” with The Truth Bomb Mom Kristina Kuzmic, where she talks about the importance of embracing our flaws and creating a family mission statement, has become a favorite.

Along with the reflective prompts and live guest videos in the Mother’s Quest Facebook Group, I hope this episode will also provide some inspiration and permission for you to create your #oneminutemommanifesto, a declaration of how you want to journey through motherhood and life.

If you haven’t yet followed along with the Manifesto Challenge, it’s not too late. All the video replays and instructions are waiting for you as a “unit” in the Mother’s Quest Facebook Group. We’d love to have you come over and join us!

And…if you create and share your #oneminutemommanifesto on social media before the end of May, we’ll enter you into a drawing for some incredible classes and resources from amazing members of the Mother’s Quest community.

Whether it’s new to you, or you’ll be listening for a second time, I hope you enjoy this encore episode with Kristina Kuzmic. And that you’ll take us up on the challenge to create and share your #oneminutemommanifesto!

Much appreciation,

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I am excited to share this vulnerable conversation with the Truth Bomb Mom, Kristina Kuzmic. Energetic, funny, and honest, Kristina has an in-your-face perspective on issues of parenting and life in general. She has become a Youtube sensation with her “mom-centric” videos about raising children and juggling all of life’s challenges, with over 200 million views across media outlets and websites worldwide.

Kristina and her husband currently live in Southern California, where her most important, rewarding, and exhausting careers include being a sanitation engineer, chef, chauffeur, and conflict resolution guru for her three (mostly satisfied) clients – her children.

In this episode, we talk about Kristina’s experience growing up in America, shaped by an escape from war-torn Croatia. She shares how on a whim, she went from being a divorced mother on food stamps to winning a cooking show on Oprah’s OWN Network in 2011. How her satirical YouTube video, “4 Reasons Women Should NEVER Breastfeed in Public,” went viral and why Kristina believes it is her community that is responsible for her reaching a half a million followers.

We get honest and emotional about our flaws and insecurities but also our impact and the power of sharing these with our children. Finally, we reflect on our shared experience of losing a baby in utero and how for both of us, focusing on just one positive thing on that day shifted our perspective and changed everything.

I hope you leave this conversation, as I did, inspired to keep turning the pages in the chapter of your E.P.I.C.life, staying true to your mission, owning your flaws, and paying attention to one positive thing every day. I was so grateful for this time with Kristina and I know you will be too.

In This Episode We Talk About:

How growing up in war-torn Croatia and her subsequent immigration to the U.S. impacted her life

How her mother influenced her parenting by striking a healthy balance between enforcing rules and fostering joy

Why she named her company “Flawed” and how she has let go of perfection

Spark Your E.P.I.C. Year

A few months ago, we declared February the new January and facilitated a Mother’s Quest Workshop/Virtual Milestone Hike experience to help us all start again.

Using photos from my favorite local hike, I took a small group on a virtual journey to:

✨Reflect on our last chapter (as we ascend)
✨Decide what we want to release (using an image of a big bad bonfire!) and what we want to carry forward
✨Then, set intentions along the E.P.I.C. guideposts for our new chapter.

There’s a special planning sheet we created to guide you and help you document the whole process.

🌟Truthfully, we can start fresh any time we choose.🌟

If you decide you want to reset and begin again, today, this afternoon or this weekend, using this experience and worksheet to support you. Just sign up here.

Spark Your E.P.I.C. Life or 90 Minute Clarity Coaching Session

If you’re feeling a desire to press “pause” on the busyness and reflect on your vision for this year, what’s working and what needs to shift, and what key guidepost would help you move forward more intentionally, I’d love to support you with a one-on-one 90-minute clarity coaching session.

If you are interested in the Spark Your E.P.I.C. Life Series or another way of working with me, please send an email to julie@mothersquest.com for a complimentary 30 minute discovery session.

Acknowledgments:

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Mother’s Quest is a podcast for moms who are ready to live a truly E.P.I.C. life.

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